UB12Booklet

URBANBUILD12 1924 TOLEDANO

PROTOTYPE12 DEVELOPMENT

CONTEXT PLANNING

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FACADE DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPING

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RESOLUTION

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PROTOTYPE12 ALTERNATIVES

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CONTEXT When approaching the site, the scheme maintains a prominent street frontage, fitting into the neighborhood as the 5th home in a series. Primary goals concern engaging the public path and encouraging pedestrians to make use of the alley neighboring the lot.

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1924 TOLEDANO STREET, CENTRAL CITY In traditional New Orleans architecture, the shotgun house is a prototype onto which shutter and the like are applied in a method of ornamentation and experimentation. Much in the same way, the scheme employs a panel system as ornamentation on the otherwise familiar, simple house form.

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PLANNING The home functions as a public node on the street front and a private node to the rear, with semi-public spaces running through and uniting these two elements. This conception of spaces as independent and yet connected allows for variation within the ways in which they interact, opening the scheme up to a diverse prototype series. The orientation of the spaces aims to dissolve the boundary between interior and exterior, encouraging outdoor occupation and an overflow of interior activities outward. This condition occurs at the main entry from the threshold as well as at the rear porch off of the living room. The entry threshold is the more public of the two spaces, communicating primarily with the public access and public exterior, whereas the rear porch is more secluded and private as it engages the small rear yard.

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FACADE DEVELOPMENT With regards to cladding systems, URBANbuild 12 places emphasis on the engaged spaces—primarily the southern and eastern faces (as they relate to the public path Leon’s Row and Toledano St.). These special moments in the façade employ an operable panel system and a monitor which employs passive strategies and produces unique lighting qualities. The remaining facades feature traditional clapboard material, but that is not to say that these facades are not important in their own ways. The north face features delineations which correlate to the fins of the monitor, so that the system is read on both longitudinal elevations. The rear (west) face showcases the high visibility of the public and semi-public bar while emphasizing the importance of the light monitor in the private, bedroom spaces.

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LANDSCAPING A holistic approach to the built environment has a strong impact on an individual. Public and private exterior spaces adjoining the home create a psychological shift for the occupant.

The URBANbuild 12 landscape proposals are tailored to the chosen site, as well as possible prototype site opportunities: infill, corner, and with an adjacent empty lot.

Landscape is just one element of infrastructure that connects systems. Rainwater runoff is an integral part to the New Orleans infrastructure. As the city has requested new commercial construction to handle water, we are also attempting to divert and slow the rain runoff on the URBANbuild 12 site.

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PROTOTYPE 12.1 Taking the site constraints into consideration, the scheme developed out of the typical linear shotgun prototype. The created narrative guides the occupant through the house.

Starting at the front, the stoop is designed for sitting and gathering. It creates an immediate relationship with the neighborhood context. Once through the threshold entry, one can experience the pitch of the valley roof. Continuing into the space, there is the living zone followed by the central node for cooking and dining— where one can look outward onto the courtyard. The rear porch is designed for outdoor dining overlooking the rear garden.

The form of the roof slopes water into the courtyard and deck and directs the water toward the garden in the back of the site. The exterior of the house is split into two datums, which can be punctured strongly with a full clerestory, no clerestory at all, or a partially glazed top component.

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PROTOTYPE 12.2 Inspired by the typical Southern vernacular of the Dogtrot style, this scheme sought to create a site condition to celebrate in its landscape. By simply shifting the house on an angle to the street, two greater side yards were opened up, one of privacy for the home and the other for the public, open to the street. Once the design furthered, the literal dogtrot was lost, but the characteristics of the style were continued through control of light, scale of aperture, and an attitude toward protection of the site.

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Dogtrot Strategy

Dogtrot Strategy

Shotgun Form on Lot

Shotgun Form on Lot

Shifted Shotgun

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2 BEDROOM PLAN - 1/4” Scale

Shifted Shotgun

Views Slipping Out

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Public vs. Private

3 BEDROOM CONVERSION - 1/4” Scale

Public vs. Private

South Facing Elevation

South Facing Elevation

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PROTOTYPE 12.3 A desire for vibrant public and private life underlies the scheme for UrbanBUILD 12, which adapts the traditional New Orleans typology of the Creole cottage and the Creole townhouse to the necessities of affordable stick-built construction. The scheme creates ample opportunity for interaction between occupants and the street via a corner porch and stair plinth extending along the street façade, but preserves the private realm within through the location of a bedroom and bathroom facing the street. From the front porch, one enters the L-shaped living space, which unites the two bedroom/bathroom zones with shared living, dining and kitchen areas. These spaces are lit by a high west-facing clerestory, taking advantage of the Creole cottage roof form to provide afternoon light and solar heat gain in the winter. Circulation continues past a kitchen island to the back porch, which is divided into public and private zones by a shade structure behind the master suite. This shade structure is convertible to a third bedroom if desired, fulfilling the required 3-bed, 2-bath program. A 6-foot wall around the backyard creates a ‘walled garden’ environment, again recalling the 18th-century Creole cottage and townhouse typologies, and including a vegetable garden which occupies the field of view from the kitchen windows.

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PROTOTYPE 12.4 The Gabled Roof House was an investigation into the topic of familiarity and the vernacular. The project was focusing on elements of the traditional shotgun, which could be investigated and reinterpreted through a critical investigation of the contemporary context which it is being produced. The design allowed the massing to focus on creating the familiar form of a gabled roof, while addressing the public sidewalk culture of New Orleans through introducing porches as a process of subtraction. These spaces allowed the activities that occur inside the house to spill outwards to the porches and beyond, taking advantage of the New Orleans climate promoting a seasonal indoor-outdoor lifestyle. Lastly, affordability was a main topic of investigation in the studio. So, the simplicity in massing and a straight forward subtractive approach allowed us to focus the design considerations towards the spaces of interaction between people and the project. The money saved in the faรงade was redistributed to the porches to achieve an intimate experience through the use of welcoming materials.

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PROTOTYPE 12.5 The main idea for this scheme for UrbanBuild 12 is inspired by the placement of private and public spaces of the shotgun house. The public spaces are aligned along the south wall of the house, and the private spaces along the north. In keeping with the tiny house theme of UrbanBuild 12, the walls perpendicular to the street are angled. The walls slant outward going from the dining room to the kitchen to the living room, giving the large, open public space a feeling of expansion as you move toward the living room. There are three porches in this scheme, each acting as an extension of one of the public spaces; the front porch is a seating area only accessible from the dining room that connects the scheme with the neighborhood, the side porch is the main entryway that transitions into the kitchen, and the rear porch connects the living room with the back yard.

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PROTOTYPE 12.6 After noticing the variety in Central City’s vernacular immediately surrounding the site, the camelback style stood out as a housing type to modernize. This scheme’s drastic scale shift from the front to the back of the house allows it to be prototypical where in a context of two or more story housing the back of the house can be the front. The massing strategy creates a high volume space if it were a simple single level plan so a loft is created adding to the program a library, study room, or future bedroom. The south facing wall is curated with apertures that carefully let light into the living room, dining room, and loft spaces while responding to the exterior cladding dimensions.

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PROTOTYPE 12.7 At the onset, the idea of raising a portion of the home to conserve space and explore the idea of the tiny house was of paramount interest. The NHS guidelines were acknowledged, but the concept was pursued despite the one-story qualification in order to explore a scheme that obtained affordability and the true prototype quality through a split-level organization which was not plainly two stories. Through experimentation of methods to raise space, the plan became L-shaped and anchored by a courtyard, allowing for various organizations of kitchen, dining, and living spaces. The courtyard was initially designed to be replaceable with a bedroom should the owner need to expand; however, it developed into a more important feature capable of activating the living area. The solidification and definition of the home’s form became increasingly important for showcasing the courtyard and clerestory as the main source of light. The raised bedrooms over the porch in the back allow for extra privacy, backyard space for gathering or planting, and a viable entrance should the house be flipped or rotated to accommodate different site conditions.

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Jeremiah Anyaele, Bryan Bradshaw, Chris Daemmrich, Elaine Damico Regina Davis, Javier Gonzalez, Eric McCutcheon, Tyler Myrick Sarah Narrow, Kyle Novak, Reed Smith, Sophia Wang